GOP Leader Threatens Lobbyists GOP Leader Threatens Lobbyists
The Republican Party's "K Street Project," intended to make lobbyists pledge their allegiance to the GOP, has supposedly been shut down in the wake of the Abramoff scandal. But in...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Time to Move Beyond Bush-Hating Time to Move Beyond Bush-Hating
You know the peace movement is in trouble when Andrew Rosenthal -- who edited WMD-fantasist Judy Miller at the New York Times -- bemoans its invisibility, as he did in an editoria...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
The War on Torture The War on Torture
In Connecticut today, a statewide interfaith network of religious leaders--Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice-- working with with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, is ...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
At the UN, Bush Cites Human Rights Declaration At the UN, Bush Cites Human Rights Declaration
When George W. Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, he glowingly referred to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was ...
Sep 19, 2006 / David Corn
Sneakers for Social Justice? Sneakers for Social Justice?
New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he's endured over sweatshop labor shows ...
Sep 19, 2006 / Column / Dave Zirin
Clooney Cares Clooney Cares
Academy Award winning actor and director George Clooney does not have a new film to promote. He does not want to call attention to a high-profile romance he's involved in. He simp...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Deja Vu on Iran Deja Vu on Iran
Is the Bush Administration mistaking Iran for pre-war Iraq? Recent events certainly sound eerily familiar. Intelligence experts and counter-terrorism officials say hawkish Repub...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Rendition Rendered Rendition Rendered
For some time now we've known about the Bush administration's outsourcing of torture to foreign dictatorships. But for the first time we can see the whole process vividly detailed...
Sep 19, 2006 / The Nation
Lab Rat for Crony Capitalism Lab Rat for Crony Capitalism
In Sunday's Washington Post, excerpts from Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City reveal the fundamentally corrupt approach this administration took to Iraq Reco...
Sep 19, 2006 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Election Dysfunction Election Dysfunction
The Sunday Washington Post headline said it all. Echoing a theme that is finally being picked up by print and broadcast media that for too long has neglected the dramatic problems...
Sep 19, 2006 / John Nichols